Thanks for that. I figured it was something along those lines. I didn't think Django did a check on the type as well when evaluating the expression, but apparently it does. Very interesting.
Thanks again. On Sep 29, 2:46 pm, Yo-Yo Ma <baxterstock...@gmail.com> wrote: > request.GET.get('subtopic') is returning a string, so your if > statement is roughly equivalent to: > > >>> 1 == '1' > > False > > The sub_topic = int(request.GET.get('subtopic')) is the correct way to > do that. At first glance it seems like a lot of work, but if Django > tried to deserialize URL params automatically into Python objects > (like int), you would have all sorts of issues (like a "username" > being passed in as an int because a user decides to make their name > "1234", and so on). > > On Sep 29, 12:52 pm, aa56280 <aa56...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have in my template the following: > > > {% if subtopic.id == selected_id %}...{% endif %} > > > subtopic.id is being pulled from a list of subtopics that I'm looping > > over. > > > selected_id is being sent to the template by the view after some form > > processing: > > #views.py > > selected_id = request.GET.get('subtopic', '') > > ... > > > For some reason, my {% if %} statement in the template isn't getting > > evaluated even when the values of both subtopic.id and selected_id are > > the same. It does, however, work properly if I do the following before > > I send selected_id to the template: > > #views.py > > selected_id = int(selected_id) > > > Why is this? I'm wondering. > > > Thanks in advance for any insight. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.